FROM EARTHQUAKE TRAGEDY TO BEACON OF LIGHT: THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA
By Armen Der Kiureghian
2024
The story of the American University of Armenia (AUA) from the moment of its conceptualization after the Spitak earthquake of 1988, to its founding in 1991 under extremely challenging conditions, and its remarkable growth and advancement over the last three decades.
REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS
By Susan Sontag
Translated by Gayane Tevosyan
2022
OUR PLANET
By Dianna Torosyan and Irshat Madyarov
2020
A textbook for learning English around environmental topics. It comes with hands-on activities including community service and research projects.
NEGOTIATION OF DIFFERENCES IN THE SHARED URBAN SPACE
Edited by Alina Poghosyan and Vahram Danielyan
2017
A collection of essays that encompass various insights into the experiences of Armenians and Turks sharing common urban space, negotiating differences, striving to attain or seize space for representations of belonging, identity, history, power, etc. The essays discuss the negotiation of differences in the shared urban space from the perspectives of urban planning, literature, musicology, and travel experiences.
LOCOMOTIVE
Edited by Arto Vaun
Issue #1, 2016
Locomotive, a journal of new writing, brings together innovative contemporary work by diverse global voices. Locomotive is published by the Center for Creative Writing (CCW) at the American University of Armenia. The first issue includes works by Renee Gladman, Norbert Hirschhorn, Kate Northrop, Amina Said, and others.
WE REFUGEES
Hannah Arendt
2016
A volume of eight essays, articles, and other texts by political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) in Armenian translation. The translations were done within the scope of the Certificate in Translation Program at AUA. The volume includes: “We Refugees” (1943), “Expansion and the Philosophy of Power” (1946); “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government” (1953); “The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Reply” (1953); “Karl Jaspers: Citizen of the World?” (1957); “What Is Authority?” (1958); “Society and Culture” (1960), “War and Revolution” (1963).
THE ARMENIAN AMIRA CLASS OF ISTANBUL
By Hagop L. Barsoumian
2007
The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul is Hagop L. Barsoumian’s 1980 Doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. It is the first academic research ever done on the wealthy and powerful Ottoman Armenians, who from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth century played a significant role in the Empire and imposed their political leadership to the Armenian millet.
AUA: A NEW BEGINNING FOR A NEW GENERATION
By Mihran S. Agbabian
2002
The recollections of Dr. Mihran S. Agbabian, founding president of the American University of Armenia (AUA), of the events and people involved with the establishment of the University.
A FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS OF ARMENIA
by Martin S. Adamian Daniel Klem, Jr.
1997
A Field Guide to Birds of Armenia clearly and effectively documents the bird life of a region largely unknown in the West but richly endowed with biological and cultural diversity. Here an international team of expert ornithologists shines the international spotlight on the fascinating birds of Armenia in one of the world’s newest and very best regional field guides. The authors and their expert collaborators describe the beauty and pleasure of Armenian birds and their diverse habitats. No other work offers such effective descriptions of Armenian birds. The detailed knowledge of species distributions and relative abundances will promote and ensure wise stewardship of birds as a valuable Armenian natural resource.